Earlier today while booking my reservations online, I was offered an option called dividend miles multiplier. For 249$, I was given the option of doubling the miles (including the 50% gold bonus) that I could earn for the trip, while for 599$, I could triple it. For my trip (LGW-PGL-LHR), it meant that I could get 12000 additional miles for 249$

Earlier today while booking my reservations online, I was offered an option called dividend miles multiplier. For 249$, I was given the option of doubling the miles (including the 50% gold bonus) that I could earn for the trip, while for 599$, I could triple it. For my trip (LGW-PGL-LHR), it meant that I could get 12000 additional miles for 249$

Anybody else seen this recently?

So just to get this straight, for $599 you would receive triple base miles AND they would also triple your Gold bonus?? If so that seems like a rather good deal, for my upcoming MAD trip I could earn an additional 35,448 miles for $599 (1.6 CPM)

So just to get this straight, for $599 you would receive triple base miles AND they would also triple your Gold bonus?? If so that seems like a rather good deal, for my upcoming MAD trip I could earn an additional 35,448 miles for $599 (1.6 CPM)

So just to get this straight, for $599 you would receive triple base miles AND they would also triple your Gold bonus?? If so that seems like a rather good deal, for my upcoming MAD trip I could earn an additional 35,448 miles for $599 (1.6 CPM)

Except that you can still buy 100K directly for less than 1.4 cpm through the end of March.

Earlier today while booking my reservations online, I was offered an option called dividend miles multiplier. For 249$, I was given the option of doubling the miles (including the 50% gold bonus) that I could earn for the trip, while for 599$, I could triple it. For my trip (LGW-PGL-LHR), it meant that I could get 12000 additional miles for 249$

Anybody else seen this recently?

PGL = Trent Lott International? Just curious...how did you route there? I didn't know US has any connections to PGL.

for my upcoming MAD trip I could earn an additional 35,448 miles for $599 (1.6 CPM)

I guess it depends on how you look at it. You've already paid for the first 11,816 miles at some cost per mile - the cost of the ticket.

Anyway, the best deal is the double miles - 100% more miles for $249. The triple miles costs another $350 to get another 100% of the base/normal bonus miles. Note that it doesn't appear to be triple miles extra, it just triples the miles. So a 10K mile itinerary would give 20K miles with the double miles and 30K miles with the triple miles, not 20K and 30K extra miles.

Of course, the more base/elite bonus miles the itinerary gives the cheaper the extra miles are. Fly PHL-PIT-PHL and they'd get pretty expensive. For an around the world ticket they'd be really cheap. but regardless of the length of the itinerary the double miles is a better deal than the triple miles. But if you want the most extra miles and don't mind paying more per mile to get them, the triple miles would accomplish that.

I just did a dummy booking and sure enough - there is was. The ability to double or triple the amount of miles you accumulate for a fee.

The caveat - The double or triple miles purchased will not count toward preferred status.

I think it's interesting that everyone is trying to sell miles right about now. How do FF's feel about this? I think I can see the appeal for infrequent travelers or those that need a boost for an upcoming award trip. Not sure I get it for everyone.